Summary Of The Movie 'Love Leads The Way'

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The patient was able to bypass his condition and find a way to succeed at the task before him, just not in the “normal” way. Schechter states “it was not united via the kinds of interactions that we assume characterize the workings of a single mind” (Schechter, 2015). There is a movie that I remember from when I was around 10 years old about the first Seeing Eye dog in the United States called “Love Leads the Way”. The dog’s name was “Buddy” and the movie documented the uphill fight to get guide dogs recognized and accepted in public places. One of the final scenes was a challenge in Congress where the aisle up the center had been intentionally cluttered with chairs, trash cans and anything else that they could find. The doubters had installed this obstacle course along the route that the blind man would have to take to make his way to the front. Upon his arrival, he tried to convince Buddy to move forward along the usual route, but Buddy looked around and led him to the front of Congress via an alternate route that nobody would …show more content…

The results showed that the patient with the complete callosotomy processed his judgements differently than the control group AND the patient who only had an anterior callosotomy. He demonstrated a left hemisphere dominance in decisions typically associated with the right hemisphere-a left hemisphere preference that was not found in the other patient or the control group. The conclusion of the study was that while both hemispheres are capable of processing expressions, they differ in the way in which they categorize the attributes of the expressions as emotions. This categorization traditionally occurs in the right hemisphere, except in cases of full hemisphere separation (Prete et al,

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